Planetary Previews was produced in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. from 1981 to 1993. It included science fiction, art, articles and political commentary, the latter mostly of a green-Jeffersonian Antifederalist bent.

Contributors of short stories included Sara Amis, Gregory Nicoll, Brad Strickland and Brad Linaweaver, as well as many other science fiction writers.

The readership numbered in the hundreds and were spread across four continents: the U.S., Canada, the UK, the U.S.S.R., Australia and Japan. The zine was also enshrined in the personal Science Fiction museum of "the world's most famous Fan" Forrest J. Ackerman, editor of Imagination!, Voice of the Imagi-Nation, and Novacious.